‘Starmer was a threat to Brexit, realigning us with various parts of the European project...and Burnham could possibly take that further’

ANDY Burnham will become the biggest threat to Brexit yet and we have just 10 years to save Britain”, Nigel Farage has warned.

- MARTYN BROWN Political Editor

The Reform UK leader says the wannabe Labour leader will jeopardise hard-won freedoms if he ousts Keir Starmer.

His stark message comes as voters go to the polls for a crunch by-election in Makerfield today, the result of which is expected to trigger the Prime Minister’s downfall.

Mr Farage says Mr Burnham could unpick Brexit “further” than the man he wants to replace. Delivering his most forthright assessment of the state of the nation so far, he also claimed longstanding government failures have worsened since the UK left the EU — meaning there is just 10 years to “save Britain”, otherwise “we’ll become a third world country”.

Mr Farage suggested he would need to serve “two terms” as Prime Minister to turn the country around.

But it is Brexit, particularly Mr Burnham’s flip-flopping on the issue, that gets the Reform leader most exercised.

The Greater Manchester mayor has said he hopes Britain will “rejoin” the EU in his lifetime but recently reversed his position to curry favour with Leave voters in the Makerfield constituency he is trying to win.

Mr Farage blasted: “Starmer was a threat to Brexit, the whole Labour government’s a threat to Brexit.

“They’ve never, ever accepted it. They fought against the will of the people.

“They’re realigning us with various parts of the European project, taking away our choices in a number of areas and Burnham could possibly take that further.”

His blistering attack came during a special episode of our weekday news show Daily Expresso, recorded in Mr Farage’s Clacton constituency to mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum next Tuesday.

Mr Farage told presenter Mark Dolan that repeated governments have failed to seize on the benefits of Brexit, leaving the UK in a perilous position.

The Reform leader suggested his political comeback two years ago was partly to save the country from going down the plughole.